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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells?
Human stem cell research is a new field with many promises, but progress towards a clinical setting has been complicated by scientific and ethical challenges. The most heated discourse over stem cell research to date has ...
Just prenatal testing? The science, ethics, and policy of testing for Down syndrome
Prenatal testing for Down syndrome (DS) has been available for over forty years. With the development of screening technologies, testing is now offered to all pregnant women. But is the increasing use of these tests really ...
Suffering and the Dimensionality of Medical Knowledge: A Critique of Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a recent philosophy that is highly influential in medicine. EBM is centred on the notion that medical practice should be supported by rigorous clinical research. This thesis explores a ...
Deciding for Others: Incompetence, Best Interests and End-of-Life Cases
The ideal way through life for each of us is a journey, where we can control our own lives and make our own decisions. For some this is not possible, and for these people decisions need to be made on their behalf. ...
Caesarean Delivery on Maternal Request: A New Zealand Perspective
In many countries, including New Zealand, the caesarean delivery rate far exceeds the current WHO recommendation of 10-15% of live births. This is causing concern amongst a number of parties. One of the explanations for ...
Disclosure or discourse? A critical examination of consent in research using surplus clinical tissue
Patient tissue samples are a valuable resource for medical research, and can therefore be used to contribute to the well-being of people in the future. It is common when using tissue for research to seek the consent of the ...
Ethics as Harmony and Improvisation in Responsive Equilibrium: the Core Psychophysical Process as a bio-logical foundation for ethical engagement
In this thesis I address the ethics of corporeal being at a foundational level. Rather than starting the discussion of ethics at an abstract level founded in propositions and logical arguments about principles, I offer an ...
Mapping Perspectives on an Ethically Challenging Paediatric Case
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This project aims to identify and examine in detail some of the ethically challenging aspects of the care of infants who have serious medical conditions, by looking at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and whãnau ...
Phenomenology of Depression: the lived-body and the silence of salience
The aim of my research is not to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions that indicate presence of depression. Rather the aim is to examine how the DSM-5 criteria constrain our understanding of depression, whether ...
Beneath the Form of Eternity: Wittgenstein, the Spirit, and Psychosis
The study of mental disorder is historically riddled with the inflammatory suspicion that psychosis cohabits with sacred experience. Are the revelations and voices which characterize the great spiritual leaders and innovators ...